The opinions expressed on this show are those of the host and not of iHeartMedia or its employees. Thank you for listening to NewsRadio 650 KENI. Amy Demboski, the show starts now. Our lines are open at 907-522-0650. This is The Morning Drive on NewsRadio 650 KENI. Good morning. It is Monday, March 10th. The current time is 6.06 a.m. This day and age, it's not that hard with all the automatic updates. You know, your phone updates.
But for those of you who forgot to spring forward, you're probably still sleeping. I hope you remember. Well, that means you also miss church because that's always the funniest one is they always miss church. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, because you should have figured it out yesterday. I mean, yeah. You know, the most annoying part is I had to go around and reset all the clocks in my kitchen. But other than that, I have three clocks in my kitchen, believe it or not. I bet you on that.
And I'm like, okay, okay, this one. And I have one that always tracks a little slower than the other, so they will all set the same, but in about a month, one of them will be like a minute slower than the other two. And so it's like if you don't watch out every now and then, you're like two or three minutes behind if you look at this one clock. So, you know, it is that day. I got to tell you, Daryl, I could have used another Sunday, but that's okay.
I would not disagree with you. I did pretty good. My time change is all done. I will say, though, I walked into my kitchen, and yes, every single clock in the kitchen needed to be set by hand. The rest of the house pretty much took care of itself. You know, getting up, clock was right. I will admit I had to set my watch on my wrist because that one, of course, doesn't ought to set up either. But I think it was a pretty good weekend. I mean, for losing an hour, we did good.
Yeah, good reminder. So I was trying this thing the last, like, two weeks, trying to switch away from my iWatch. Because for some reason, it's not syncing to my phone. I mean, it does, but it doesn't consistently. And so I'm like, well, what is the point of it? If I have this watch on, that's not telling me when somebody texts me or calls me. So I thought, you know, I'm going to switch away and I'm going to go back to my regular watch.
So I did that for about two weeks, and I've got to tell you, I still feel lost. So I have my iWatch back on today. But that's a good reminder, because I've been switching back and forth between the two. I find, like, I get a lot more peace and quiet. when I have my other watch on.
Because I don't carry my phone. Yeah, I don't carry my phone with me every single place I go. Like, I'll be at work, but sometimes I'll just leave my phone on my desk and then I come back and I have like 10, you know, messages or missed calls or whatever. I'm notorious for that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. One of these days, but that's a good reminder. Don't forget to reset all your manual clocks if you haven't done that yesterday.
Oh, that's right, the car one. Car clock is one of the ones that will really get you. Yep, that's a good reminder. I'll do that today, too. Well, it seems like it's going to be a pretty decent day. We're starting off mild temperatures, 34 degrees here in Palmer. I'm only cranking 32 here in Anchorage, but it was 34 at 4 o'clock this morning, so we're only losing a little bit of temperature.
It says we're going to get it back by this afternoon. I mean, in fact, our highs all through the week are above freezing. Oh, yeah, I'm looking at Palmer's High today. It says 39, so it looks like it's going to be a fairly decent week. Kenai right now checking in at 34, Big Lake 30, and Fairbanks 14. So there you go. But it looks like it's going to be a relatively decent week. I'm excited. This week, of course, on Saturday is the Valley Republican.
Women's Club's Lincoln Day Dinner. That's going to be Saturday the 15th. At Settlers Bay Lodge, 6.30 p.m., the keynote speaker is going to be Congressman Nick Begich III. Tickets are going like hotcakes, so if you want a ticket, you need to go to VRWAK.com, and you'll be able to get your tickets.
ticket there, but that should be a lot of fun. We're going to see a lot of friends there. I'm looking forward to it, but it does look like it's going to be a relatively nice week, temperature-wise and weather-wise, so we won't complain too much. Let me jump into some of our community announcements. There's a few. There's not a ton, but there are a few.
Starting with the Mat-Su Borough, there's a Library Citizens Advisory Committee meeting tonight at 5 p.m. in the Assembly Chambers. The Central Mat-Su Fire Service Area Board of Supervisors. meeting for tonight at 6 p.m. for fire service area board number 130 has been canceled. But there is a West Lakes fire service area. Board of Supervisors meeting that will be at 6 p.m. at the West Lakes Fire Department, Station 7-3.
Also tonight will be a Big Lake Road Service Area Board of Supervisors meeting at 630 Big Lakes Lions Club. If you need more information on any of these meetings in the MATSU, just go to matsugov.us. As far as the city of Wasilla goes tonight, they do have a regular city council meeting. This is the funniest thing. They have it publicly noticed from 6 p.m. to 9.01 p.m.
Well, they are distinct out there for knowing exactly how long they're going to go. If they said 9 o'clock, people would be walking out and they're like, wait, we've got one more thing. I just laughed when I saw that. I'm like, that's got to be a typo. But I love it. So anyways, it's very precise.
and I'm not going to complain at all because their assembly meetings are much shorter than Anchorage's. So if you'd like to attend the City of Wasilla's council meeting tonight, it will be at City Hall in the council chambers, 290 East Herning Avenue in Wasilla. information including the agenda just go to cityofwesela.gov i didn't see anything publicly noticed for the city of palmer
So, let's move on to the Municipality of Anchorage today for March 10th. The Board of Adjustments has a meeting. It looks like it's a Microsoft Teams meeting at 2 p.m. today. The Planning and Zoning Commission has a work session, and that's going to be at 5.30 p.m. tonight. That will be in the LUSAC Library and the Assembly Chambers, of course. Tonight is the Eagle River Chugiak Parks and Rec Board of Supervisors.
meeting in March 10th, of course. That's today. The regular meeting will be in the Eagle River Town Center Community Room, which is located at 12001 Business Boulevard. the same building as the library. It's just down the hallway. So walk in like you're going to the library. Go down the hallway. It's just on your left there.
That, again, is at 6.30. And then to round out Anchorage's meetings for today, the Planning and Zoning Commission does have a meeting tonight at 6.30 p.m. It'll be in the LUSAC Library Assembly Chambers, which, of course, is located at 36. 600 Denali Street in Anchorage. If you need more information on these boards and commissions, including some of the online links if you want to attend virtually to some of these meetings that allow for online
participation, just go to muni.org, click on the Mayors tab, and then click on the Events tab. And that will bring you to boards and commissions. All right. As I'm looking at the calendar for the city of Kenai, The Harbor Commission meeting that was scheduled for tonight has been canceled, so there is no meeting today in the city of Kenai. I didn't see anything on the Kenai Peninsula Borough's calendar, so that is also...
Looks pretty clear. And for the city of Saldana, there's nothing on your calendar for today. The city of Homer is going to be busy today, though, because they start with a special city council meeting at 3 p.m. followed by a work session at 4, committee meeting of the whole at 5, and their regular city council meeting at 6 p.m.
Again, you can find all the information relating to each one of these meetings if you just go to cityofhomer-ak.gov. If you'd like to attend in person, it's going to be held at the Cal's Council Chamber, Homer City Hall, 491 East. Pioneer Avenue they usually have a zoom link and a phone participation link as well and again they're going to be very busy today starting at 3 o'clock so if you want more information just go to their website
And that really does it for our community announcements for this morning. If you have an announcement of something that's going on, whether it's a local government issue, a state government issue, or just something fun like the Valley Republican Women's Club Lincoln Day Dinner on Saturday. We're always happy to plug those things. All you have to do is give us a call and let us know what's happening. The number to call, 522-0650. We're going to go ahead and take our first break in the morning.
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Waking up, it is 6-18 on this glorious Monday morning. A friend of mine just zipped me a text about the Shigek Eagle River Parks and Rec Board of Supervisors. This was a board that I... um was on before i got on the assembly you know it was interesting
Because when I first served on this board, I've got to be honest with you, I'm not a big Parks and Rec kind of person. It was like, I'm like, okay, how many times have I, if I go recreate in Alaska, I go out to my cabin and, you know, I'm not really. I'm not really partaking in the parks per se. Now, do I like hiking and stuff? Of course. I think that's wonderful. But I'm not like somebody who's going to go to a city park or whatnot, generally speaking. I like to get out and about.
um but i was like you know when i was asked by mayor sullivan's team to join it they needed a fiscal person on that team and it was fascinating to me because they had a lighting project that i think the original budget was about four hundred thousand dollars and my first meeting The director comes in front of them and says, yeah, the project's gone a little over cost. The project had ballooned to almost $900,000. Whoa. It was like almost twice as much.
And so my first question, I wanted to know how much money they had in each account. And the answer was, well, we have enough. And I said, okay, well, I'd like to see your budget. Like, it was shocking to me that. no one on the commission actually saw their budget. So I'm like,
I could understand why Mayor Sullivan wanted a fiscal person on the committee. And so it was a great educational, I mean, we had a great director at the time. John Rotter was the director at the time. And people just trusted him. And so when they would ask him,
hey, do we have the money for this? He'd say yes, and they just trusted him. But when you serve on a board and commission, it should always be trust but verify. It should be show me the numbers. So we started really going through and actually going through the numbers at each meeting and stuff. But it was really a great learning tool for me. So I really encourage people, even if they're topics that you're not always.
super excited about necessarily you're like okay I don't know anything about this well it's a great learning environment and you really get to see how your money is spent and tonight will be one of those moments because the parks
Rec Board for Chugiaki River is going to be discussing the mill rate. See, this is that time of year where they start talking about your taxes. And you don't realize a lot of times, especially Chutyac Eagle River, whether it's the Parks and Rec Board of Supervisors or whether it's Subursa, which is your road board, they have a big influence on the assembly at times with setting.
your tax rate. You know, so most people don't realize this, but a lot of times, especially in the Chuyack Eagle River area, when I was involved, and Bill Starr was really good at this when he was on the assembly. But we would look at how much cash they had on hand, what projects they had coming up, and we'd say, no, you don't need to tax the cap. You have plenty of money. And so we would intentionally suppress.
and not allow them to tax to their full mill capacity because they didn't need it. You don't need to tax people just to put money in savings. I was going to say, that's kind of what they're doing now. At least to me, that's what it seems like is they are always working it so they can get up to. that edge and well we didn't go over it well i was gonna say when i was on the assembly one of my one of my more brilliant moments i had to laugh i think i've told this story on the air before um so
We are going through all our budget amendments, and I fundamentally understood how the tax cap works. And really what it has to do with is, I mean, there's multiple components going into the tax cap, but the next year is always predicated. on the amount collected the year before. So you notice I said the word collected. So we're going through all of our budget amendments when I'm on the assembly. And as we're going through all these budget amendments,
Paul Honeman had one for a tax rebate, basically. A tax, you know, give back. I don't know if it was a million dollars, two million dollars. It was something. It was a couple million bucks, maybe. And Paul Honeman had this amendment, and we get to the end of the meeting. We go through all these budget amendments, all these things, and he decides he's not going to move his amendment.
And I look over at him, and I said, you know, Mr. Honeman, that is just such a great amendment. I'm going to go ahead and move Mr. Honeman's amendment. So I moved his tax rebate amendment, because once somebody introduces it, like... It belongs to the body, right? You can't basically take it back. So I'm like, oh, so I moved it for him, and I went ahead and I just, you know, sang his praises, got it passed. Well, what I knew was that was going to lower the amount they could tax next year.
because i understood fundamentally how the tax cap worked sneaky so it was and i did it on purpose because i knew yes we could get this year's tax reprieve but because i knew but it only worked it only worked for one year because then Dunbar caught on to what was happening. This is part of the reason why they always tax to the cap because they know if they don't tax to the cap.
what will happen, and I'm talking about the assembly now, not boards and commissions, but if they go and tax the cap, it will lower the amount they can tax next year. Right, so wouldn't it lower the amount of the cap, basically, is what it does? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And so that's why, you know, Bill Starr was good at doing it. Like I said, I laugh because Hodeman, his instincts were right, but I don't think he fundamentally...
Well, he agreed. Let's just say he voted for his own amendment. And it passed. But it always made me laugh when I did certain things, when I realized people... They didn't quite see the big picture, the minutiae of what I was doing or why I was doing it. But this is why boards and commissions can be very influential, especially when it comes to an assembly body. So for tonight, for the Eagle River folks.
Your Parks and Rec Board is going to be discussing your tax, you know, your mill rate. So this is a component of your overall tax bill that you get from the municipality. And you have to remember, it's not just one thing. You can have your road service area. you know mill rate go up or down you can have your parks and rec you know service area you know go up or down you can have your fire service area mill rate go up and down I mean
Every one of these little tiny pieces make up how much taxes you pay in property taxes. So they're interesting conversations to listen to and be a part of. And I will tell you, you will get people on these boards that sometimes just feel like... they don't tax all the way to the cap, that they're leaving money for the government on the table and that they should do that and just tax you and put it in savings. And that is not my philosophy. Mine is...
If I'm going to take money out of people's pocket, it better be for a dang good reason, and it better have a purpose behind it, not just, hey, we just want to save this money for a rainy day. Well, especially since how the money that gets put into savings...
it kind of like disappears off the top of mind. And all of a sudden, it'll build, it'll build. And all of a sudden, they've got this huge chunk of money, which they're still, they're not telling us about, but they're still asking you for new bonds. And then when they get a pet project, like, oh, I don't know. maybe toilets or something, they'll dip into that, you know. The old Portland moves.
How is it on Mondays we find a way to talk about potties and, well, we haven't gone into food yet, but potties, I got to tell you, we start talking about government spending and immediately start talking about toilets. It's just where it flows. let's say oh my word oh my word did you hear about the shooting that happened outside of the white house yesterday i only caught pieces and parts of it i didn't get the whole story
Trump wasn't there, but it sounds to me like death by cop. It's what it sounds like. It sounds like suicide. But Secret Service shoots man outside the White House. This according to a Daily Caller article. Service shot a man outside the White House soon after midnight on Sunday, according to a spokesperson with the Secret Service. Quote, the Secret Service personnel were involved in a shooting following an armed encounter with a person of interest shortly after after midnight on March 9th."
Prior to the shooting, local police learned of a suicidal individual who may have been traveling from Indiana to Washington, D.C. Secret Service members then found the individual's parked car near 17th and F Street. near the Eisenhower Executive Office Building and saw a person walking nearby matching the description. The release went on to state, quote, as officers approached, the individual brandished a firearm and an armed confrontation ensued.
during which shots were fired by our personnel, end quote. The man was transported to the hospital, and his condition is unknown. As of Sunday afternoon, there were no reported injuries of Secret Service. It's really, it's just very sad. It goes on and says,
As officers approached the individual, obviously Brandon St. Harris read that. There were no reported injuries. The incidents under investigation by the Metropolitan Police Department Internal Affairs Division Force Investigations Team. That's a title.
which investigates all law enforcement officer-involved shootings in the District of Columbia. So, you know, I've got to be honest with you. You know, here's the thing. If you pull a gun on a cop, you can pretty much assume you're going to get shot.
Well, there's that, and I don't know if you remember, but I think it was about two months ago. I think it was right about two months ago. They had the gentleman that went through a full tour of Congress and everything else carrying a weapon who was suicidal also. Oh, I didn't hear that. During this break, I'll dig it up for you. It was literally crazy that this guy, they knew he was there, okay, in Washington. They knew he was suicidal, and that he most likely had a weapon.
And yet he managed to get with that weapon into a tour of the Capitol, make the whole tour of it. Man. When he came out, that's when they, oh, by the way, sir. A little backwards there. A little backwards. The reason I say this one sounds to me like somebody who, you know, obviously if you have a suicidal person, they pull a gun on a cop. I mean.
It's probably a cop's worst nightmare, right, is one of them, is having to shoot somebody who's mentally ill, really. But it says in the statement, it says the suspect turned around. ran aggressively towards the officer and in drawing motion withdrew the object from his clothing. He then crouched into a shooter's stance as if about to fire a weapon. The Secret Service officer discharged his weapon, striking the individual in the torso. End quote.
So to me, it sounds like somebody who... That sounds like, yeah, he was premeditated. He knew what he was going to do, and he just wanted to end it that way. That's sad. That's sad. I mean... I don't know. I mean, again, play stupid games, win stupid prizes. But ultimately... Oh, it's never anything to celebrate when somebody who clearly has, you know, if they're suicidal, they clearly have issues. And for them to...
to go out that way and force a police officer to have to put him down. It's just, to me, I feel sad for the officer. Well, yeah. You want mental stress. I just, oh. Yeah, for sure. All right, well, let's go ahead and take a break. We're hitting the bottom of the hour. If you'd like to call in, be part of the show, 522-0650. We'll be right back.
Monday morning, we'll hold on to partly sunny, mostly cloudy skies throughout the day, with those temperatures warming into the mid to upper 30s. Slightly cooler this week, although still seeing a stretch of quiet weather. Staying with us. For Alaska's Weather Source, I'm meteorologist Aaron Morrison. Amy Demboski, 628 Mornings on News Radio 650, KENI. Call now, 907-522-0650.
Good morning. If you're just waking up, it is 618 on this glorious Monday morning. A friend of mine just zipped me a text about the Shugak Eagle River Parks and Rec Board of Supervisors. This was a board that I was on before I got on the assembly. It was interesting.
Because when I first served on this board, I got to be honest with you, I'm not a big Parks and Rec kind of person. It was like, I'm like, okay, how many times have I, if I go recreate in Alaska, I go out to my cabin and, you know, I'm not really. I'm not really partaking in the parks per se. Now, do I like hiking and stuff? Of course. I think that's wonderful. But I'm not like somebody who's going to go to a city park or whatnot, generally speaking. I like to get out and about.
But I was like, you know, when I was asked by Mayor Sullivan's team to join it, they needed a fiscal person on that team. And it was fascinating to me because they had a lighting project. that i think the original budget was about four hundred thousand dollars and my first meeting The director comes in front of them and says, yeah, the project's gone a little over cost. The project had ballooned to almost $900,000. Whoa. It was like almost twice as much.
And so my first question, I wanted to know how much money they had in each account. And the answer was, well, we have enough. And I said, okay, well, I'd like to see your budget. Like, it was shocking to me that. no one on the commission actually saw their budget. So I'm like,
I could understand why Mayor Sullivan wanted a fiscal person on the committee. And so it was a great educational, I mean, we had a great director at the time. John Rotter was the director at the time. And people just trusted him. And so when they would ask him, hey, do we have the money for this? He'd say yes, and they just trusted him. But when you serve on a board and commission,
You know, it should always be trust, but verify. It should be show me the numbers, you know. So we started really going through and actually going through the numbers at each meeting and stuff. But it was really a great learning tool for me. So I really encourage people. Even if they're topics that you're not always super excited about necessarily, you're like, okay, I don't know anything about this.
Well, it's a great learning environment, and you really get to see how your money is spent. And tonight will be one of those moments because the Parks and Rec Board for Chugaki River is going to be discussing the mill rate.
See, this is that time of year where they start talking about your taxes. And you don't realize a lot of times, especially Chutyac, Eagle River, whether it's the Parks and Rec Board of Supervisors or whether it's Subursa, which is your road board, They have a big influence on the assembly at times with setting.
uh your mill your your tax rate you know so most people don't realize this but a lot of times especially in the chugak eagle river area when i was involved and bill starr was really good at this when he was on the assembly But we would look at how much cash they had on hand.
what projects they had coming up. And we'd say, no, you don't need to tax the cap. You have plenty of money. And so we would intentionally suppress and not allow them to tax to their full mill capacity because they didn't need it.
You don't need to tax people just to put money in savings. I was going to say, that's kind of what they're doing now. At least to me, that's what it seems like is they are always working it so they can get up to that edge. And, well, we didn't go over it. Well, I was going to say, when I was on the assembly, one of my... One of my more brilliant moments. I had to laugh. I think I've told this story on the air before.
We are going through all our budget amendments, and I fundamentally understood how the tax cap works. And really what it has to do with is, I mean, there's multiple components going into the tax cap, but the next year is always predicated. on the amount collected the year before. So you notice I said the word collected. So we're going through all of our budget amendments when I'm on the assembly. And as we're going through all these budget amendments,
Paul Honeman had one for a tax rebate, basically. A tax, you know, give back. I don't know if it was a million dollars, two million dollars. It was something. It was a couple million bucks, maybe. And Paul Honeman had this amendment. And we get to the end of the meeting. We go through all these budget amendments, all these things, and he decides he's not going to move his amendment.
And I look over at him, and I said, you know, Mr. Honeman, that is just such a great amendment. I'm going to go ahead and move Mr. Honeman's amendment. So I moved his tax rebate amendment, because once somebody introduces it, like... it belongs to the body right you you can't you can't basically take it back
So I'm like, oh, so I moved it for him and I went ahead and I just, you know, saying his praises, got it passed. Well, what I knew was that was going to lower the amount they could tax next year. because i understood fundamentally how the tax cap worked sneaky so it was and i did it on purpose because i knew yes we could get this year's tax reprieve but because i knew but it only worked it only worked for one year because then
Dunbar caught on to what was happening. This is part of the reason why they always tax to the cap because they know if they don't tax to the cap. what will happen, and I'm talking about the assembly now, not boards and commissions, but if they go and tax the cap, it will lower the amount they can tax next year.
Right, so wouldn't it lower the amount of the cap, basically, is what it does? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And so that's why, you know, Bill Starr was good at doing it. Like I said, I laugh because Honeman, his instincts were right, but I don't think he fundamentally... Well, he agreed. Let's just say he voted for his own amendment. And it passed. But it always made me laugh when I did certain things, when I realized people...
They didn't quite see the big picture, the minutiae of what I was doing or why I was doing it. But this is why boards and commissions can be very influential, especially when it comes to an assembly body. So for tonight, for the Eagle River folks.
Your parks and rec board is going to be discussing your tax, you know, your mill rate. So this is a component of your overall tax bill that you get from the municipality. And you have to remember, it's not just one thing. You can have your road service area. you know mill rate go up or down you can have your parks and rec
service area go up or down. You can have your fire service area mill rate go up and down. I mean, every one of these little tiny pieces make up how much taxes you pay in property taxes. So they're interesting conversations to
listen to and be a part of and I will tell you you will get people on these boards that sometimes it just feel like if they don't tax all the way to the cap that they're leaving money for the government on the table and that they should do that and just tax you and put in savings
And that is not my philosophy. Mine is, if I'm going to take money out of people's pocket, it better be for a dang good reason, and it better have a purpose behind it, not just, hey, we just want to save this money for a rainy day.
Well, especially since how the money that gets put into savings, it kind of like... disappears off top of mind and all of a sudden it'll build it'll build and all of a sudden they've got this huge chunk of money which they're still they're not telling us about but they're still asking you for new bonds and then when they get a pet project like oh I don't know
maybe toilets or something, they'll dip into that, you know. The old Portland news. How is it on Mondays we find a way to talk about potties and, well, we haven't gone into food yet, but potties, I got it. tell you we start talking about government spending and immediately start talking about toilets it's just it's just where it flows let's say oh my word oh my word did you hear about the shooting that happened outside of the white house yesterday
I only caught pieces and parts of it. I didn't get the whole story. Trump wasn't there, but it sounds to me like death by cop. It's what it sounds like. It sounds like suicide. But Secret Service shoots man outside the White House. This according to a Daily Caller article.
Service shot a man outside the White House soon after midnight on Sunday, according to a spokesperson with the Secret Service. Quote, the Secret Service personnel were involved in a shooting following an armed encounter with a person of interest shortly after after midnight on March 9th."
Prior to the shooting, local police learned of a suicidal individual who may have been traveling from Indiana to Washington, D.C. Secret Service members then found the individual's parked car near 17th and F Street. near the Eisenhower Executive Office Building and saw a person walking nearby matching the description. The release went on to state, quote, as officers approached, the individual brandished a firearm and an armed confrontation ensued.
during which shots were fired by our personnel end quote the man was transported to the hospital and his condition is unknown as of sunday afternoon there were no reported injuries of secret service It's really, it's just very sad. It goes on and says,
As officers approached, the individual, obviously, Bernie Sanders read that. There were no reported injuries. The incidents under investigation by the Metropolitan Police Department Internal Affairs Division force investigations team. That's a title. which investigates all law enforcement officer-involved shootings in the District of Columbia. So, you know, I've got to be honest with you. You know, here's the thing.
If you pull a gun on a cop, you can pretty much assume you're going to get shot. Well, there's that. And I don't know if you remember, but I think it was about two months ago. I think it was right about two months ago. They had the gentleman that went through a full tour of Congress and everything else carried. a weapon who was suicidal also. Oh, I didn't hear that. During this break, I'll dig it up for you. It was literally crazy that this guy, they knew he was there.
in Washington. They knew he was suicidal and that he most likely had a weapon and yet he managed to get with that weapon into a tour of the Capitol. Make the whole tour of it. When he came out, that's when they, oh, by the way, sir, we need to come with us. A little backwards there. A little backwards. The reason I say this one sounds to me like somebody who, you know, obviously if you have a suicidal person.
They pull a gun on a cop. I mean, it's probably a cop's worst nightmare, right, is one of them, is having to shoot somebody who's mentally ill, really. But it says in the statement, it says the suspect turned around. ran aggressively towards the officer and in drawing motion withdrew the object from his clothing. He then crouched into a shooter's stance as if about to fire a weapon. The Secret Service officer discharged his weapon, striking the individual in the torso. End quote.
So to me, it sounds like somebody who... That sounds like, yeah, he was premeditated. He knew what he was going to do, and he just wanted to end it that way. That's sad. That's sad. I mean... I don't know. I mean, again, play stupid games, win stupid prizes. But ultimately... oh it's never it's never it's never it's never anything to celebrate when somebody who clearly has uh you know if they're suicidal they clearly have issues and for them to
to go out that way and force a police officer to have to put him down. To me, I feel sad for the officer. Well, yeah. You want mental stress. I just, oh. Yeah, for sure. All right. Well, let's go ahead and take a break. We're hitting the bottom of the hour. If you'd like to call in, be part of the show, 522-0650. We'll be right back.
This is News Radio 650, KENI, Anchorage. The search continues for two men whose ATV fell through the ice of the Susitna River last week. Alaska's news source reports Sky Wrench of Wasilla and Sean Kendall remain missing following the crash Thursday morning. Police say the two were among five people working under contract for Alaska Directional who were riding the ATV across the river when it went through the ice. Wrench and Kendall were swept away by the river and remain unaccounted for.
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News Radio 650 KENI. Looking at your Alaska total traffic cameras on this Monday morning. Currently light traffic around the Anchorage Bowl. I'm not seeing any stoppages or slowdowns out there. Hope you can have yourself a safe and... Reach out to Amy now. 907-522-0650. That's 907-522-0650. It's Amy Demposki on NewsRadio 650. KENI. Welcome back, current time 634. All right, so I just found this story that Daryl was talking about. This is crazy, Daryl.
This one was January 23rd. It was published on Fox News. U.S. Capitol visitor completes entire tour armed with gun insecurity failure. Yeah. A man from Massachusetts. Had a nine millimeter in his waistband. He went through security. And it says right here, the United States. United States Capitol Police, they have the acronym, noted that when Faber went through the Capitol Visitor Center checkpoint, the magnometer sounded and that an officer performed a secondhand search.
But then he missed the handgun and waved the suspect inside. Which is just crazy. If it's in your waistband, I don't understand. It's a pretty common place to look. Pretty common place to look, I will tell you. You know, I've gone through, so I have these boots that I like to wear a lot, and they're just like regular boots, but they have a zipper all the way up and down the side of them.
Oh, those boots are made for walking, I've heard. They are. They are. But especially in the winter. Like, I don't wear winter boots. I just wear these, like, really cute black boots. They're adorable, by the way. And they have these zippers all the way, you know. You know, all the way up the side of them. And so I left because I would inevitably wear them to jury duty because it was wintertime. October to December is when I had grand jury duty.
And so I would wear them. 50% of the time, they would go off, and 50% of the time, they would not. But I will tell you, at the Palmer Courthouse, they were very thorough. I mean, every single time, they would pat my boots down. They would make me show them the bottoms. soles of my boots, you know, just to make sure, whatever. I mean, we got up close and personal many times. And, you know, I'm like, eh, I kind of, I realized it. But it was interesting because when I flew down to...
When I flew down to Utah to see Kennedy, I wore the same boots, and they didn't beep at all at the airport. Maybe they've changed the... composition that they're looking for because, you know, zippers are made of, like, tin and stuff like that. And I've got to say, if you have them big boots like that, I'd drive you crazy because I love the sound of zippers. I don't know what it is, but I love the sound of zippers. And so, like, those ones, I'd be like...
Yeah, so that would be annoying. That would be very annoying. I've been told it before. Yeah, that would be very annoying. But I kind of laugh because, you know, sometimes I will think about where I'm going and I'm like, do I have to go through a metal detector because this is going to be a pain to wear. But, you know, you would think looking for a gun, I mean.
there's a couple places you look do you know waistband would be the first place right waistband would be the first place but oh my word yeah apparently apparently the officer has uh you know was put was suspended so we'll see well i'm sure we'll never know what actually happens to that officer but look gotta do your job gotta be thorough
Gotta be through. But again, yeah, that guy there, they had reports that he was going to the Capitol with basically suicidal. And if he was going through with a gun like that, you know he probably expected to be caught and popped right there and have his standoff. And you know, he was probably like going, wow. I just made it through. I just made it through. I guess I'll take it through.
Well, authorities said that it was just a day after the president was sworn in. They received a lookout for a man, later identified as 27-year-old James A. Faber of Massachusetts, with reported mental health issues. suicide of thoughts who is believed to be armed and in the area. Well, you know, these security failures can happen, so, you know, what are you going to do? What are you going to do? Well, I will tell you, I laugh after Trump's...
joint address to Congress and address to the nation last week, man, the left is trying hard. Like, the post-mortem that is happening on their behavior, look, I will tell you, Al Green, You just look, I mean, it's hard because you have, I don't care what side somebody's on. When somebody has served for many years in public service, you know. I think that's, oh, they probably entered public service with a good heart wanting to do good things. And many of them still, I think, are there.
But he just looked out of place, you know, waving his cane at the president. I mean... Really, this is what you're going to associate your party with. It was really beneath you. It was beneath him, I think. I think it was beneath the moment. And I think it looked terrible. But now Raskin, who I cannot stand this guy. Raskin, he is a Democrat from, I think he's from Maryland. Jamie Raskin. And now he thinks Trump should be censured for calling Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Anything they can. Well, and I've got to tell you, some people, I think you rightfully could argue it was beneath the president to call a sitting Senator Pocahontas during his joint address. I think that is a valid argument. It was still... But I think people could argue that was, you know. But here's the thing with censures. Like, unless they have teeth.
I think they're a complete waste of time. Like, we've seen censures here at the state legislative level. We've seen, like, what are they going to do? What are they going to do? You know, some legislative bodies, and most of them do, have the ability, not all, but... many, have the ability to expel members. They have the ability to strip members of staff or committees. So if there's teeth to something, some sort of public admonishment, then OK.
But if there's not, then what? Then what? It's a waste of time. I've never, and maybe it's happened. I'm sure if you have a legislator who's saying it can happen, I've never heard of... Congress censuring a president. Typically, it's a resolution of admonishment for a member. I've never quite heard of them doing it.
To a president I'm like what what what you there's nothing I think censures largely or are a waste of time there. I could be a time where it's you know it needs the body needs to come together formally condemn somebody's behavior and let the american people know that we do not agree with this behavior but again if you have to go to that formal step i think there should be some teeth to it. You know, like if Congress is going to admonish a member
in a formal way like that, there should probably be a penalty. You should probably lose a committee assignment. There should be a penalty. Heck, I'm not afraid of saying maybe there should be a civil fine. I don't know. But to me, I don't know. I've just never been one of those ones when they get all worked up about censorship. So what? You don't like what I did? I did it anyway.
What's it gonna do? They've done it a bunch of times in the past and like you said it literally has no effect and and it's it's one of those things that actually makes people act out because they know there's no one. But so if they wanted to, so the House wanted to, this member of the House wanted to censor the president, censure the president, right? Jamie Raskin. Then should the president have the opportunity and the ability to censor or censure the...
House members? I don't think it works that way. I mean, because they're always calling him names. They're always calling him. Well, they are. Hitler. Oh, they are. All these things. I think the point. And this is me, Amy, arguing devil's advocate on Jamie Raskin's point. The point was it was in the House on the floor at the moment when Donald Trump said it. Okay, but I've heard several members of the house on the floor call him names directly out there in their thing.
You're right. Well, they call him, you know, like a threat to democracy. We've heard that on the floor. I've heard that. I'm pretty sure I can look up one of their fascists. I'm sure. Where they call him Hitler. Yeah, good point. A dictator. So it's literally, I mean.
It's good for the gooses, good for the gander. Yeah, very good point, very good point. Well, you know, what have I said 500 times on this show? If it wasn't for double standards, some of these Democrats would have no standards at all. Okay, so you've got... me saying this now. Over the weekend, I said that to people three times. Literally.
It's true. It's true. We could probably rattle off half a dozen examples. Yeah, yeah. Oh, Kim is on the phone. Let's go to the phones. Good morning, Kim. Good morning, Amy and Daryl. How are you? Good. How's your morning? Pretty good. I was up early. I just listened to you guys. I switched between you and Glenn Beck. You're both pretty good shows. So I put my deductive skills.
uh to work and i figured out how that guy got the gun in there in the white house yeah what do you think it was a ghost gun Oh, it could have been. It could have been. These guys, I mean, I'm probably getting too wrapped up in all this. Those Democrats, they belong in a bug house, man. They really do. They're just, they're insane.
Totally insane. Well, you know, and I think what you're seeing is their behavior, the joint session, I think it just doesn't connect with the mainstream American people. Think about this. You see all these people holding up these ping pong pads.
saying he's lying lies like I mean and then you have a guy you know waving his cane at the president they don't look like they connect with most Americans and Frankly, it's like I'm trying to think of a good analogy, and I didn't come up with one, but it's like we're in a digital age and somebody is still, you know, using an 8-track.
I mean, it doesn't feel like, to me, they're in step with the majority of people. Yeah. So I think what they should do before they ever vote into Congress, have them do an IQ test. Seriously. I mean... I've been advocating to see their credit reports. I've got to be honest with you. And now these days, let's just see how they're really making their money. Let's see all their stock trades and see if that lines up with any committees they're on.
Oh, yeah. They're so scared. You saw Nancy Pelosi during the speech? Oh, yeah. She's a cat on fire, man. I'm telling you. I thought she looked like she was lit, personally. I mean, there was a couple times where her lips were kind of like doing that. Yeah, but her eyebrows look normal. Lots of Botox. Lots of Botox. She's from California. The plastic is strong there.
Yeah, yeah, good point. Well, thanks for weighing in this morning. I appreciate the call. All right, love you guys. Have a good day. All right, you too. Thank you so much. All right, well, I have a friend. He is the one that remembers everything, and he told me, he texted me and said, Andrew Jackson was censured by the Senate over a bank issue. When he later had a majority of allies, the center was removed from the record. Well, this explains why he's on the $20 bill now.
Well, ironic, actually, because he was not somebody who was for the federal banking issue. I laugh because when I did my history degree, one of my professors went into kind of, he did his thesis, his Ph.D. on Andrew Jackson. he was talking about he thought Andrew Jackson would be rolling over in his grave being on the $20 bill. I was like, oh, interesting. I didn't do mine on Andrew Jackson. I did mine on William Clark, actually. That's what I...
And it's not a PhD. I just did my history. Lewis and Clark? Yep, yep, William Clark. So that's what, effectively when you get a history degree at UAA, you spend one entire semester, it's called your senior seminar, one entire semester writing one paper on one topic.
And my topic was William Clark, a very interesting guy. But I digress. I know it's commercial time, so let's go ahead and take a quick break. Our phones are lighting up. So as soon as we come back, we will go to the phones. Stay with us. Now back to the boss. Amy Demboski. Call 907-522-0650 and be a part of the show on News Radio 650. KENI. Welcome back. Current time is 651. We're going to go straight to the phones. We'll start with Jim. Good morning. Now back to the boss.
Amy Demboski. Call 907-522-0650 and be a part of the show on News Radio 650. KENI. Welcome back. Current time is 6.51. We're going to go straight to the phones. We'll start with Jim. Good morning, sir. Good morning. I'm an old person, so as an adult, I have an obligation to pass on adult behavior, not adolescent or childish behavior, which you saw, of course, in your Congress there. The whole one side would act like little children and brag to little kids.
But what I really recall is that maybe I missed the picture, but I was driving down Fourth Avenue and I didn't see a picture of Lady Riddles on the side of the street. And I think that would be adolescent behavior. Maybe I missed it, but her picture should have been up there. Yeah, I haven't been down there for a while. Yeah, keep going.
Go ahead. Go ahead. Yeah, finish your thought. Yeah, well, anyhow, that disappointed me because I watched after the following year after she had won. They may believe she wasn't kind of there. And they continue to do it. They're doing it right now. They don't mention her name. That's adolescent behavior.
Well, thank you for bringing it to our attention. I appreciate the call. Thank you so much. Well, talking about the Iditarod, we could give you an update right now. The 2025 standing so far, that's what I'm looking. looking at the sporting news, so who knows if this is updated. Let's see.
Do you have the updated ones, Daryl? One of the last updates, at least. The one I've got is 270, I do believe, is what the last number. Yeah, 270 is the last one I've got. And it's from like five this morning is what I think it was. I think yours is probably more updated than that. mine. But mine, the last one that I have, because I'm not on the right page, says Jesse Holmes. Is that a Grayling? Is he still in the first spot?
You are correct. Jesse Holmes is out of Grayling 2, and it's Grayling 2, so the way they've got it, I was looking at the map trying to figure this out. It's kind of like they go down, and then they come back through Grayling again. They added this weird little, like, bobby pin. They added a loop. It looks like a bobby pin. me, but okay. Yeah, it does. It does. And then, so we've got Jesse Holmes coming out, then we've got Paige Drobny, and then Matt Hall, Mitch Seavey,
Nicholas Pettit. These are all out of Grayling, too. And Michelle Phillips. Those are all out of Grayling. And then Shaq Tulek is, we're just going to go with the seventh place one, Bailey Vitello. All right. That's what we have for our Iditarod lineup for 2025. Interesting race this year. Even though they restarted it in Fairbanks, longest race route ever because they added an extra loop to it. But interesting.
pretty mild right now like i said this morning i was 14 in fairbank so it's pretty mild it's actually quite warm for the itinerad those dogs got to be like hot as all get out yeah when you look at the race map on it like i said it is just the weirdest looking race map this year i'm like going okay i'm not sure why they did that put a little triangle at the bottom of it and a dead end and to come back up but they make a nice dog leg on there so i figured that's for the idea to rod
Yeah, yeah, probably. All right, well, let's go to the phones and see what Randy has for us in store this morning. Good morning, sir. Good morning, young lady and Daryl. Quick joke, and then I need your advice. All right, go for it. Why did Blue Jay cross the road? Why did the what cross the road? Blue jay crossed the road. Oh, why did the blue jay cross the road? I don't know why. Because he couldn't jaywalk? Is that what you said?
No, practice is day, day, y, walk. Because of his jaywalk. Day, day. Day, day, d-a-y. Day, y, yeah. Well, I have one for you. This one, you have to think pop culture. Are you ready? This is a pop culture one. Okay. Okay. What did 50 Cent do when he was hungry? No clue. 58. I cracked myself up. You're welcome, everyone. Much, much better than mine. All right. Well, we have about a minute and a half left. What can I give you advice on? I'm trying to look on the Matthew Burrell schedule.
Yep. Simply scheduled. Yes. Then we'll be discussing Rob Young's money graph. I believe they're going to do it on the 18th, if I recall. I know Mystery Alaska had an article up about it. I think it's the 18th. I will double check for sure and let people know. I know I've been getting a lot of these questions, too. But I think it's the 18th. Okay. So the meeting details on the 18th is not available at this time. Okay. Okay.
Yep, sounds good, and I'll update you if it changes. Okay, thanks so much, Randy. I appreciate the call this morning. All right, well, we're going to go ahead and hit our top-of-the-hour break. We are anticipating a phone call this morning from Senator Shelley Hughes. She'll be giving us an update from Juneau, so that will be in the 7 o'clock hour. If you'd like to call in and be part of the show, the number to call is 522-0650. We'll be right back.
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